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‘Underground' Sneaker Sales Are Big Business in DC
Here’s a look at how the underground sneaker resale business works in our area on Instagram.
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Walmart, Best Buy, Target, Amazon Announce Black Friday Deals
In three weeks, thousands of Americans will hit stores to get the best deals as part of their holiday shopping. Stores across the U.S. are already getting ready for the season by announcing their Black Friday deals. Here are some options that may catch your eye.
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Black Friday Hours: Here's a List of When Retailers Will Be Open
Although some retailers have already started marking down items and cueing the holiday music, the season will kick off in earnest this week. Retailers are preparing for crowds of shoppers as the holidays approach, with retail sales expected to grow between 3.8% and 4.2% this year to between $727.9 billion and $730.7 billion, according to the National Retail Federation. For...
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Target Eyes Tenleytown, Ivy City for New Small-Format Stores
Retailer Target has big plans to open relatively small stores in two D.C. neighborhoods, continuing their expansion in the capital.
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Holiday Shopping Started in July This Year, Thanks to Amazon
If someone asked you when the holiday shopping season starts, you’d likely point to Black Friday, when flocks of people swarm stores after a hearty turkey dinner to pick through the hottest deals. But for more people in 2019, holiday shopping started in July. Why? Amazon. Amazon’s annual Prime Day extravaganza has “become a real part of the changing holiday...
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Samsung's Folding Phone Hits the US
Samsung’s folding phone is finally hitting the U.S. Samsung will start selling the Galaxy Fold, a phone with a screen that folds together like a book, on Friday. There will be an AT&T version as well as an unlocked version sold at Best Buy and Samsung stores. The South Korean tech giant had put the Galaxy Fold’s launch on hold...
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1 Killed, 5 Injured in Columbia Heights Shooting
A man was killed and five people were injured when someone opened fire on a crowd in Columbia Heights. Chris Gordon reports.
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‘China Is Not Paying for It': Trump Tariff Hike Hits Everyone From Beer Brewers to Book Publishers
They brew beer, make musical instruments, publish children’s books and design headphones. Their industries are diverse, but they all have something in common: They represent American small and medium-sized businesses that rely on China either for production or essential equipment. And they are dreading President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs in a trade war that reached new intensity on...
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Elderly Woman Dies After Delivery Man Beat Her, Doused Her With Chemical in Boca Raton Home: Cops
An elderly woman has died after police say a delivery man from Hialeah badly beat her in her Boca Raton home before dousing her with a liquid chemical.
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Don't Toss Out Your Batteries: They Could Catch Fire
Here are some safe disposal methods for dead batteries. NBC4’s Consumer Reporter Susan Hogan has the story.
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Score Free Coffee at Tenleytown Wawa When It Opens Thursday
The wildly popular Philadelphia-based convenience store, take-out restaurant and gas station chain is now open in Tenleytown.
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Sears Pins Future on Small Stores Selling Appliances, Mattresses
Like many suburban shopping areas, Overland Park, Kansas, has a Whole Foods grocery store and a Cheesecake Factory. Now, it’s among the first to have a Sears Home & Life store. For five decades, from 1967 to 2017, Sears had presence in the booming town, which is also home to Sprint ‘s headquarters.
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Small-Format Target Stores Open in Cleveland Park, Shepherd Park
Retailer Target opened small stores in two D.C. neighborhoods, continuing their expansion in the capital.
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Neiman Marcus Releases 2018 Fantasy Gift Guide
Neiman Marcus has released the 92nd edition of its Christmas Book and Fantasy Gifts. The 2018 edition features a solar yacht, a unique tennis experience and more.
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Why Sales Tax Is More Likely for Online Gifts This Holiday Shopping Season
Shoppers heading online to purchase holiday gifts will find they’re being charged sales tax at some websites where they weren’t before. The reason: the Supreme Court. A June ruling gave states the go-ahead to require more companies to collect sales tax on online purchases. Now, more than two dozen have moved to take advantage of the ruling, many ahead of...
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What You Should Wait to Buy
Consumer Reporter Susan Hogan found some great Cyber Monday deals, but she also has some advice on what items you should wait to buy.
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Black Friday 2018: See DC-Area Store Hours and Tips
Here are the Black Friday hours you might want to know about in the D.C. area.
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Thanksgiving Day Deals Could Be Stealing Black Friday's Thunder
Shoppers pulled out their phones and shopped on Thanksgiving Day to spend more than they ever have before on Turkey Day, potentially stealing some of Black Friday’s thunder. Sales online Thanksgiving Day totaled $3.7 billion, up 28 percent from a year ago, Adobe Analytics said in a report. That makes Thursday the fastest-growing day for e-commerce sales in history, added...
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In Era of Online Retail, Black Friday Still Lures Shoppers to Stores
It would have been easy to turn on their computers at home over plates of leftover turkey and take advantage of the Black Friday deals most retailers now offer online. But across the country, thousands of shoppers woke up before dawn the day after Thanksgiving and brought their mobile devices with them to take part in this most famous ritual...
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Shoppers Brave Cold to Get Black Friday Deals
Dozens of stores get a jump on Black Friday by opening on Thanksgiving Day. News4’s Shomari Stone met up with some people who braved the cold skipped the turkey for big savings.